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(CNN Student News) — April 25, 2008
Gold for Gas - Hear how some people are trading in their teeth for gas money.
Olympic Torch Down Under - See what happened when the Olympic torch touched down in Australia.
Before We Go - Find out why one young woman is offering others free prom dresses.
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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Welcome to Friday. The week’s last broadcast of CNN Student News. We’re glad to have you along. From the CNN Center, I’m Carl Azuz.
First Up: Gas Prices Up
AZUZ: First up, Americans are paying record rates at the pump, as the cost of gas shoots sky high. Now let’s put this in context. A year ago, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded was $2.85. A month ago, it was $3.26. Yesterday: $3.55 per gallon! That number’s gone up 14 cents in just the last week! Part of the reason is a change over from winter-grade gasoline to more expensive summer supplies.
AZUZ: Once that transition gets wrapped up, some experts do think the price increases will slow down, but they don’t expect them to stop. And that means shelling out big bucks if we want to keep cruising around town. Some people are already digging deep to keep their cars on the road, and not just in their wallets.
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AZUZ: In his 2006 State of the Union speech, President Bush said it.
U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: America is addicted to oil.
AZUZ: Since then, that addiction has gotten a lot more expensive, and some Americans are taking extreme measures to pay for it, turning wearable gold into liquid gold. Welcome to Capitol City Pawn shop in Topeka, Kansas, where cash-strapped customers have found a new way to get gas money.

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immediately fuse that with found footage.
Layering the live projection with the raw footage on screen, the video duo uses a mixer to key in, fade, burn out and otherwise affect the video, partly as eye candy and partly as an illustrated exchange of ideas.
It’s an ethic borrowed from DJ land, which benefits from stock and gathered footage, plus the wide swath of reference that the Internet brings. While DJs find audible beats, Watson and Elie are looking for a kind of visual rhythm.
At Lila you’ll see classic Bollywood films, stills from the movie Baraka, footage of Horra’s mother wrapping a sari and anything from their bank.
When not working at their respective day jobs (high school art educator and graphic designer), Elie and Watson bounce around the city, filming the bridges to Quebec from a moving car, or documenting the goings-on of an hour at the graffiti wall at the old Technical High School to use in their projections.
You would have seen work by the University of Ottawa grads at the National Gallery Artsparks event, at Tungda Browne shows (Elie is the band’s guitarist) or through Artengine events such as the Public Art Conspiracy in 2005, which saw images projected onto the exterior walls of York Street in the ByWard Market.
For their clubbier events, they have to react on a dime to the room’s sound and mood. Crowd connection is a huge motivator. Asked how they know that they’ve hit their stride, Watson and Elie wax wild about real-time interpretations and “resonance.”
Horra calls it live art: “You can bring the present moment into your footage — so you get that feeling. You know what you’re seeing is what is happening right now.” Filmed, projected, transmuted and translated, your club experience will be part Truman Show and part tricked-out surveillance, making it strangely compelling and just a bit trippy. VCR’t plays at the multi-media art event Lila, taking place tomorrow and

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